The Finance Weekly

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The idea is to compare two sets of records—your internal records (like your company’s general ledger) and external ones (like bank statements or vendor invoices). Leverage Automation - Invest in software that can handle the heavy lifting for you. Think of it like balancing your checkbook but on a much larger scale.

Reconciliations

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

With over 100 countries mandating its use, e-invoicing has transformed billing practices worldwide. This shift demands that billers stay informed and proactive, as compliance and efficiency heavily depend on understanding complex regulations and effectively leveraging service providers.

Invoicing

Future CFO

APRIL 28, 2025

Tools like automated invoicing , reminders, and up-to-date tracking help businesses stay proactive in collections while providing customers with a seamless payment experience," he continues. Regional payment practices and invoice processing challenges Asia's diversity in payment culture and regulatory frameworks presents unique challenges.

Sales

Global Finance

AUGUST 11, 2025

The Singapore branch coordinates regional client needs, leveraging local market understanding and regional hubs to offer a range of services from FX conversions to exotic-derivative hedging. It uses natural language processing (NLP) to optimize deductions and customer sentiment in invoice processing.

Cash Management

Global Finance

JULY 30, 2025

BNP Paribas is leveraging AI to transform its operations and enhance client experience. Andy Schmidt, Tech Consultant, CGI Meanwhile, BNP is leveraging RFPGPT, an AI offering designed for cash management Requests for Proposals. What we don’t know is the precise timing of incoming cash.”

Finance

E78 Partners

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

With the support of firms like E78 , companies can leverage the skills of experienced interim leaders to implement robust financial strategies that maintain stability and promote growth during periods of uncertainty. Enter interim leadership, a strategic solution providing organizations with the expertise to navigate these challenging times.

Leadership

Global Finance

MAY 6, 2025

QR codes are also powering domestic point-of-sale systems for a range of retail businesses and food and beverage vendors, generating physical and digital invoices, and implementing cross-border payment solutions. Sponsored by: The post OCBC: Leveraging Digital Cash Management Toolsfor 24/7 Banking appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

Cash Management

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JULY 24, 2025

Identify where operational risks live: Assign accountability for invoice accuracy, production quality, fulfillment reliability, and on-time delivery. Use Technology for Measurement and Transparency Leverage software to: Automatically track KPIs such as days sales outstanding (DSO), dispute frequency, and process bottlenecks.

Profit and Loss

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 23, 2025

While it's tempting to assume that slow payments are solely a customer-side problem, many of the most common causes originate within your own operations: inaccurate invoices, format mismatches with accounts payable (AP) systems, outdated payment options, and overly liberal credit policies. Use escalating tone and cadence to reflect urgency.

Invoicing

KG Virtual CFO

JULY 21, 2025

This guide presents actionable strategies—defining cash flow, optimizing inflows and outflows, forecasting future needs, leveraging technology and virtual CFO services, building liquidity reserves, and tackling common cash flow problems. Flexible payment schedules that split invoices into smaller, manageable installments.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

AUGUST 7, 2025

Here are some additional applications for collection environments : Low-Cost, High-Impact Interventions: Outreach Sequencing: Simple, automated reminder emails or calls can prompt payment from a segment of customers who simply overlooked their invoices.

Profit and Loss

Future CFO

JUNE 19, 2025

To prevent the overburdening in local teams, what I found effective (and) is a critical factor is leveraging new technology to automate the conversion between local and global reporting standards," he says. Basic intelligence tools such as Power BI can streamline the process, reducing manual effort."

Finance

CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Right now, many companies receive invoices in paper envelopes. They open the envelope, scan the invoice, manually input the data, and attach the invoice to the system. This manual process can take anywhere between eight and twelve minutes per invoice. We also reduce human error by leveraging machine learning.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Future CFO

MARCH 11, 2025

However, IA leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate cognitive tasks, enabling intelligent document processing, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making.

Finance

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

MAY 29, 2025

AI-Driven Communication: Generative AI and natural language processing automate invoice generation, follow-ups, and payment notice management, saving time and enhancing customer interactions.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

AUGUST 5, 2025

Once an invoice becomes past due, predefined steps are triggered automatically. This approach meant that outcomes depended heavily on the diligence and preferences of each collector, leading to inconsistency and subjectivity across the portfolio. With the advent of automated collections, we have seen a major improvement in consistency.

Accounting

Global Finance

AUGUST 12, 2025

” World’s Best Bank for Long-Term Liquidity Management | Citi As the real-time economy places new demands on global liquidity, Citi, is leveraging its extensive network to provide sophisticated solutions. “Balancing speed with robust security is crucial.

Cash Management

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 16, 2025

Consider copying the customer’s next level of management, and internal stakeholders with a need to know, who have a direct relationship with the customer, in cases where timely collection may be an issue, or for an unusually high value invoice. Leverage internal relationships with the customer to help you collect what is owed.

Invoicing

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This includes real-time digital tax filings and e-invoicing that is soon to be required in nearly 100 countries. Leveraging data reuse and intelligent agents is a powerful solution to help address these challenges, allows tax and finance functions to work more effectively and focus on growth and innovation."

Compliance

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 10, 2025

Do a courtesy call for current high-dollar invoices. Ask if the invoice is in order and scheduled to be paid within terms. Collectors should never chase only specific invoices. Once contact is made, the collector should work on everything past due, which includes invoices that will become past due before the end of the month.

Invoicing

CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 29, 2025

Read More At PairSoft, Collis leverages these experiences to prioritize purposeful integration. Many AP solutions require users to leave their ERP environment, process invoices externally, and then sync the data back via API. Our solution, PaperSave , is embedded directly within the ERP, enabling a seamless, in-system workflow.

CFO

Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Before the pandemic, DBS had relentlessly leveraged emerging technologies to help SMEs, especially micro and small enterprises, streamline services and manage credit risk. “Banks have not thought enough about the battleground of tomorrow,” said Gupta in a 2015 interview with the National University of Singapore’s Business School.

Banking

CFO Plans

MARCH 10, 2025

Establishing clear payment terms, offering early payment incentives, and utilizing innovative technology to streamline invoicing are crucial measures. For example, a SaaS company working with enterprise clients can leverage automated invoicing systems to ensure timely reminders and reduce human error, thereby expediting payment processes.

Economics

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Financial institutions can better understand the risk profiles of small suppliers by leveraging alternative data and machine learning, thus expanding access to financing. Suppliers can instantly track invoice payments and upcoming payment totals for improved forecasting. Santanders 50 million Brazilian real ($8.3

Finance

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JULY 3, 2025

Singh explains that while traditional ERP systems handle some aspects of O2C, such as invoicing, payment application, and ledger management, they often fall short of providing full transparency and automation. Many critical functions, such as customer contact management, reside in separate systems (e.g.,

Credit Risk

Trade Credit & Liquidity Management

JUNE 23, 2025

If the goal of the Q2C cycle is to create a smooth path from invoice to cash, broken credit workflows are the potholes that slow the journey—and sometimes derail it altogether. Machine Learning-Driven Credit Scoring: Leverage real-time behavioral data, bureau insights, and custom logic to generate accurate credit scores automatically.

B2B

The Charity CFO

MARCH 13, 2025

Pro Tip: Leverage expense approval tools to ensure all vendor invoices and credit card transactions are reviewed and approved at the appropriate levels. Enforce Strong Internal Controls Without internal controls, nonprofits are vulnerable to financial mismanagement and fraud.

Nonprofit

CFO Plans

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Be on the lookout for warning signs of cash flow problems, such as delayed payments from clients, a mounting pile of unpaid invoices, or dwindling cash reserves. Exploring Growth Management Solutions Leverage technology and financial tools to automate processes and streamline operations.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

We invest in optimizing processes and leveraging advanced technologies like AI to improve efficiency. These solutions enhance the accessibility and efficiency of SCF with a digitized and automated offering that simplifies invoice and payment processing. For instance, Finastras Assist.AI

Finance

Bramasol

JULY 29, 2025

For example, telecom operators leverage AI to automate revenue recognition processes, ensuring compliance with standards like ASC 606 and IFRS 15. They also leverage AI models to accelerate the quote-to-cash cycle by analyzing customer behaviors, suggesting optimal pricing strategies, and automating the invoicing process.

SAP

Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Leveraging SCB’s global environmental, social, and governance (ESG) expertise, Saadiq offers market-leading, Shariah-compliant, sustainable-financing offerings, including transition finance, ESG advisory, and sustainable deposits. It has substantial experience structuring Islamic solutions.

Finance

Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Leveraging digital solutions, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), streamlines processes, improves efficiency, and enhances customer experience. Modifi advances up to 90% of the invoice value upon shipment, allowing the exporters to unlock working capital tied up in receivables. Morgan J.P.

Finance

CFO Dive

JUNE 9, 2025

You need systems that can: Flag classification risk before an invoice gets paid Forecast regulatory exposure in shifting markets Spot gaps in onboarding or missing documentation Detect changes in payment behavior or FX volatility At Papaya Global, AI helps us bring all of this into view. And the ones still organizing spend by country code?

Finance

Bramasol

JULY 16, 2025

Predictive Maintenance : Leveraging ERP software integrated with IoT for predictive maintenance enables utilities to proactively manage assets, minimizing downtime and unplanned repair costs. Cloud-based ERP systems also lower the total cost of ownership compared to legacy solutions.

SAP

Bramasol

JULY 1, 2025

Features include: Automated Billing : SAP Cloud ERP can automatically generate invoices, track payment history, and manage revenue recognition, especially for subscription-based offerings. This reduces administrative effort and ensures timely payments.

SAP

Collectiv

JULY 21, 2025

This bridges the gap between traditional robotic process automation (RPA) and generative AI, allowing agents to handle complex, UI-based tasks like data entry, invoice reconciliation, or market research while maintaining transparency and control.

Compliance

CFO Dive

MAY 26, 2023

Leveraging intelligent automation to process invoices can help, Steven Cronin writes. CFOs are under growing pressure to drive efficiencies at zero cost.

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